trawl
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trawl
- /tɹɔːl/ UK
- /tɹoːl/ Australia, British, New Zealand
- /tɹɔl/ US
- /tɹɑl/ US, cot caught merger
- /tɹɒl/ Canada
- /tɾɔl/ Scotland
- /tɾɔːl/ Wales
Sounds like troll (some dialects) · Rhymes with -ɔːl
Where it comes from
16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray.
noun trawls
- A net or dragnet used for trawling.
- A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
- An exhaustive search. I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.
verb trawls · trawling · trawled
- To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.
- To fish from a slow-moving boat. They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.
- To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area. We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.
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verb To fish with a trawl
| Español | hacer pescar arrastrera, pescar con red barredera, pescar arrastreramente, pescar al arrastre |
|---|---|
| Français | chaluter |
| Italiano | sciabicare |
| Русский | тра́лить trálitʹ |
verb To make an exhaustive search within a defined area
| Español | rastrear, esculcar, escurcar |
|---|---|
| Français | passer au peigne fin |
| Deutsch | durchforsten |
| Русский | прочёсывать pročósyvatʹ |
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